About
Ruben Quesada’s latest poetry collection, Brutal Companion, winner of the Barrow Street Press Editors Prize, was published in October 2024. He edited the anthology Latinx Poetics: Essays on the Art of Poetry, which won an Independent Publisher Book Award in 2023. Quesada’s work appears in The Believer, American Poetry Review, the Best American Poetry series, Harvard Review, and The New York Times Magazine. He has received fellowships from the Jentel Foundation and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. Quesada is an editor, writer, and advocate for diversity and inclusivity in the literary arts. He lives in Chicago.